Re: CHAT: mental masturbation

>=kristin
>I believe the problem arises because the verb masturbate is indeed
>inherently reflexive, and I think inherently reflexive words cannot
>be passive at the same time. I'm not sure about this but I think
>that in many ways, the reflexive functions like voice much as the
>passive does, and one cannot afterall have two voices in a verb at
>the same time - that is, one cannot have a verb that is both active
>and passive at the same time, nor can one have a verb that is both
>passive and reflexive at the same time.
um, sorry it had to come up in this emotionally loaded context, but my
post of march 6 "fuzzy voice" dealt at length with non-binary
grammatical categories for NGL, the example was, um, monica and bill.
With this grammar, you can for sure have a verb that is both active and
passive or agent and patient at the same time.

check it out.

Jerry
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